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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: How the Gospels got their attributions...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 106
Re: How the Gospels got their attributions...
Irenaeus has no reason to make up Mark and Luke as authors. Cause they weren't disciples. Arguably they could be thrown out of the Canon on that basis. With Luke, if it was viewed as being written by the same person as Acts, that did limit options to companions of Paul ("we" passages), wh...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: How the Gospels got their attributions...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 106
Re: How the Gospels got their attributions...
the synoptics are not for sure early as 2 out of 3 of them are later revisions so it's whether the proto-John is earlier than the original synoptic how do we know that John doesn't preserve more ancient ideas? Do we know? This is a topic worth exploring. Maybe you could develop an argument for the ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:48 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Logical errors in Christ Myth Theory
- Replies: 3
- Views: 43
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Ian Mills's "external evidence" that Luke preceded Marcion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 543
Re: Ian Mills's "external evidence" that Luke preceded Marcion
Which do you have in mind? It's an interesting topic.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:56 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 67
- Views: 535
Re: History trumps Theology
You employ the word "history" as slogan that magically supports whatever you want to say, but you don't do any history.maryhelena wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:25 am What slogans have I been posting for years ? I'm curious about what specific 'slogans' you found objectionable ?
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:55 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 67
- Views: 535
Re: History trumps Theology
It's just another variation of slinging slogans instead of providing analysis that is the nature of your posting. You're right about one thing. Trying to discuss your slogans is actually pretty boring.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:07 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 324
Re: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
In book 2, Irenaeus has a reference re: "these same arguments will apply against the followers of Saturninus, Basilides, Carpocrates, and the rest of the Gnostics." This might seem to imply that Saturninus, Basilides, and Carpocrates were gnostics. Birger A. Pearson makes reference to Boo...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
- Replies: 450
- Views: 13812
Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
Just putting this here so I can look into it later. Origen, Contra Celsum, 4.51 I know, moreover, that Numenius the Pythagorean--a surpassingly excellent expounder of Plato, and who held a foremost place as a teacher of the doctrines of Pythagoras--in many of his works quotes from the writings of M...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:59 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Numenius "On the Good": (1) Agathos, (2) Nous, (3) Demiurge
- Replies: 1
- Views: 37
Re: Numenius: (1) Agathos, (2) Nous, (3) Demiurge
On the Good by Numenius is such a rich topic. I hope it can be explored further.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:59 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Numenius "On the Good": (1) Agathos, (2) Nous, (3) Demiurge
- Replies: 1
- Views: 37
Numenius "On the Good": (1) Agathos, (2) Nous, (3) Demiurge
Numenius was a philosopher with an interest in metaphysics, who (among other things) wrote a work in six books titled On the Good . Like other philosophers, he considered that there was some kind of Pythagorean knowledge transmitted to and revealed by the Attic philosophers. The wisdom of Pythagoras...